Metallica, Trivium & Others Pay Tribute to Iron Maiden

Maiden Heaven, a new Iron Maiden tribute CD featuring Metallica, Trivium, Dream Theater and others, was recently included with copies of the U.K. rock magazine Kerrang!, and Kirk Hammett talked to Guitar World about Metallica’s interpretation of the Maiden classic “Remember Tomorrow.”

“We wanted to do something old school, old-school Maiden, and ‘Remember Tomorrow’ was a good song because it was a song that was a little bit closer to our style. And we were able to embellish it a little bit, we actually added some parts.

“And you know, I never really listened to Dave Murray’s guitar style—it’s a wacky guitar style,” added Hammett. “It’s unreal. I tried to learn some of those licks, I thought, Wow. That’s such a different approach. It makes me appreciate them all the more.”

Regarding Metallica’s approach to doing cover songs, Hammett had this to say:

“My attitude toward covers is, if you’re going to cover something, you might as well put your personality into it. If you’re going to cover something and do it just like the original, you might as well just listen to the original. It’s weird, because I hear other bands covering stuff and the only thing that’s different is the sound of the vocals. We like to screw around with the arrangement, take things out, put stuff in, add a guitar solo or drop a guitar solo. Totally just make it over.”

Metallica have announced September 12 as the release date for their upcoming CD, Death Magnetic.

The track listing for the album is:

"That Was Just Your Life"
"The End of The Line"
"Broken, Beat & Scarred"
"The Day That Never Comes"
"All Nightmare Long"
"Cyanide"
"The Unforgiven III"
"The Judas Kiss"
"Suicide & Redemption"
"My Apocalypse"